Probably because the time when the ancestors of the Gusi tribe came here is too far away from now, even if there was a prosperous tribe, it has disappeared without a trace under the erosion of time.

The two searched for a long time, but they didn't get the slightest.

Just as he was about to give up, the cuckoo's call came not far away: "Zikai, come and see, there is a cave here." ”

Ling Zikai hurriedly ran over.

I saw that the cuckoo didn't know when, climbing on a cliff five or six meters above the ground, and was waving towards him.

Ling Zikai shouted curiously, "How did you climb up?"

The cuckoo pointed to the right side of the cliff and shouted, "There's a road over there." ”

Ling Zikai followed the guidance of the cuckoo, and sure enough, on the rock wall, he found a stone step with traces of artificial excavation.

The passage was originally hidden by weeds, but as the cuckoo climbed up, some of the grass was peeled away, revealing hidden steps.

Due to their age, the stone steps are worn and covered with a thick layer of moss, which can lead to slipping if you are not careful.

Ling Zikai almost used his hands and feet to climb up.

I saw that on the top of the cliff, there was also a cliff.

Between the cliffs and the cliffs, there is a stone crevice that is more than 30 meters long.

In the middle of the stone crevice, a triangular cave was exposed, about five meters wide, and the highest point was more than three meters.

After Ling Zikai came up, the cuckoo pointed to the cave and said, "I have been to this cave before, and there is a big stone hall in it, do you want to go in and have a look?"

"What's in there?"

"Nothing, but judging from the walls of the cave, there are places that have been excavated by hand before. ”

"Since we're here, let's go in and have a look!"

After entering the cave and walking more than ten meters, the light dimmed significantly.

The cuckoo lit a pine branch that he had picked up at some point, and continued to walk inside.

The cave was about fifty meters deep, and then a large stone hall appeared.

The stone hall is more than 40 meters long from north to south, more than 30 meters wide from east to west, and the dome is more than 20 meters high, so there should be no problem in accommodating hundreds of people to gather together.

Inside, the cave is full of soil and stones.

The cuckoo did not stop, but continued to walk inside.

After passing through the stone hall, turn left and there is a side hole, which seems to have been dug out by hand, more than 20 meters long, six or seven meters wide, and about five or six meters high. The wall of the cave is relatively flat, and the lines after excavation are sharp and angular and mottled.

At the end of the hole, on the wall about two meters above the ground, several small holes more than one meter deep were dug in the opposite style.

There are traces of smoke and fire on the walls of the small cave, which may have been used as a stone niche for worship of gods.

The two of them carefully searched every corner of the cave, but found no clues, and couldn't help but be disappointed.

Even if this stone cave was the place where the ancestors of the Gusi people lived and lived, it was not a hidden place because of its geographical location. In the long years, I don't know how many people have come in, and even if there is anything left, it should have been picked up a long time ago, where will it be left until now.

Ling Zikai habitually released the Ancestral God Consciousness and swept through the entire cave, but still found nothing.

Just as he was about to give up, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be some patterns carved on the top of the walls of the cave around him.

His heart moved, and he examined it carefully.

Under this closer look, he really found some clues.

The wall of the cave was indeed carved with this sub-pattern.

The patterns were intaglio and then painted with some reddish-brown pigment made from unknown raw materials.

Due to the age, some places have fallen off, and some of them look mottled and incomplete.

On the whole, those petroglyphs are very abstract, using the flat modeling method, the lines are very simple, there is no detail depiction, most of them do not paint facial features, and the structure of the object is simplified to the extent that it can no longer be simplified, but it can grasp the basic form of the object.

Moreover, there are many kinds of graphics, including the sun, moon and stars, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, birds and animals, and other natural scenes, as well as wheels and vehicles, knives, axes, bows and arrows and other utensils, as well as mysterious symbols such as gods and earths, primitive numbers, handprints and footprints.

It looks strange, with different faces, clumsy and rough, simple and changeable. It is often a number of individual images that are not related to each other, and even if they form a picture, they are the overlapping of individual figures.

After Ling Zikai looked at it for a while, he couldn't understand what was recorded in it. I can only guess that it should be a record of the stories and scenes that happened in those years.

"Sister, are there some petroglyphs carved on this?"

After looking at it for a while, Ling Zikai retracted his consciousness and said to Du Juan.

"Where?"

The cuckoo looked around, but did not find the petroglyphs that Ling Zikai was talking about.

Ling Zikai pointed above and said, "At the top of the cave walls on both sides!"

However, the ground in the cave wall carved with petroglyphs was more than four meters high, and the light from the pine branches in the cuckoo's hand could not reach the top at all, so no matter how wide the cuckoo's eyes were, he could not see the scene on the top.

Looking at the cuckoo's somewhat helpless appearance, Ling Zikai said: "Sister, there are a lot of pictures engraved on it, which look a little nonsensical, I don't know what it means, otherwise, I'll copy it for you on the ground!"

Ling Zikai said as he picked up a sharp stone from the ground, and while looking at the petroglyphs on the bi with his consciousness, he used the stone to copy it on the ground.

The dust that had accumulated on the ground was very thick and a little loose, Ling Zikai first compacted it with his hands, smoothed it out, and then began to carve it with the sharp corners of the stone.

Although Ling Zikai is not good at painting, fortunately, the patterns on the stone wall are reflected in his mind, and after the gourd in his hand is copied out, it is also somewhat similar.

After painting for nearly half an hour, Ling Zikai still tried his best to pick out some simple and representative patterns to copy, and almost painted half of the cave ground.

While looking at Ling Zikai's paintings, Du Juan kept thinking, trying to connect those individual paintings. Sometimes he nodded as if he had realized, and sometimes he frowned and shook his head, indicating that it was a little incomprehensible.

After Ling Zikai finished painting, he stood quietly to the side, watching the cuckoo there intently looking at the patterns on the ground, without disturbing her.

When the cuckoo finished reading all the patterns on the ground, he asked Ling Zikai, "Have you painted them all?"

Ling Zikai smiled bitterly and said, "Sister, there are at least tens of thousands of patterns on it, how can I draw them all in such a short time? I don't even think there are even half of them." But those images that seem to be more important should be here. ”

The cuckoo looked at the dense patterns on the ground, pondered for a long time, seemed to have some understanding, picked up a stone, drew a few lines on the ground, saw that the seemingly disorderly patterns were divided into several areas, and after looking at it for a while, he said: "If I guess correctly, these petroglyphs should record some historical development processes of the ancestors of the Gusi people." Moreover, he also has a close relationship with the great ancestral god!"

Ling Zikai perked up when he heard this, and said, "Sister, come and listen to it." ”